All down by the Greenwood side (Cruel Mother Child No. 20)

Collected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler
Sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer Pocahontas, Arkansas August 28, 1958
Reel 297, Item 5
All Down By the Greenwood Side
(The Cruel Mother, Child #20)
This maid was passing by one day,
All alone and alone,
She saw those babes both out for play,
All down by the greenwood side.
0 babes, 0 babes, if you were mine,
All alone and alone,
I'd dress you up in silk so fine,
All down by the greenwood side.
0 mother, dear mother, we once were yours,
All alone and alone,
You neither gave us coarse nor fine,
You killed and buried us under a stone,
And prayed to the Lord it'd never be known,
All down by the greenwood side.
For seven long years you shall hear a bell,
All alone and alone,
And at the end of seven years you shall land in Hell, All down by the greenwood side.

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Collected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler
Sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer Pocahontas, Arkansas August 28, 1958
Reel 297, Item 5
All Down By the Greenwood Side
(The Cruel Mother, Child #20)
This maid was passing by one day,
All alone and alone,
She saw those babes both out for play,
All down by the greenwood side.
0 babes, 0 babes, if you were mine,
All alone and alone,
I'd dress you up in silk so fine,
All down by the greenwood side.
0 mother, dear mother, we once were yours,
All alone and alone,
You neither gave us coarse nor fine,
You killed and buried us under a stone,
And prayed to the Lord it'd never be known,
All down by the greenwood side.
For seven long years you shall hear a bell,
All alone and alone,
And at the end of seven years you shall land in Hell, All down by the greenwood side.